ArticleJournal of experimental criminology2023
The 40-year debate: a meta-review on what works for juvenile offenders.
Article in Journal of experimental criminology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Change process in psychotherapy for criminal offenders: a comprehensive review with content analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Youth Justice Services: Relationships, Rehabilitation and the Reality of the Young People Involved-A Meta-synthesis of the Qualitative Literature.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Determinants and Outcomes of the Therapeutic Alliance in Treating Justice-Involved Youth: A Systematic Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Research.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Psychosocial Experiences of Juvenile Detainees in Türkiye: An analysis of Environmental Factors from an Ecological Systems Perspective.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2026Article
- Bringing Technology to Justice-Involved Youth.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- An Affordances-Based Approach and Scoping Review of Virtual Reality Applications in Forensic Behavioral and Mental Health Assessment and Treatment.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences, anger, and violence among justice-involved youth: A network analysis.Child abuse & neglect · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Dangerousness to the Public, Criminogenic Risk Factors and Psychopathic Traits in Child-to-Parent Offenders and Contrast with Non-Child-to-Parent Offenders.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Leveraging the Full Continuum of Care to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Ramping Up Detention of Young Serious Offenders: A Safer Future?Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Review
- Are risk-need-responsivity principles golden? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of community correction programs.Journal of experimental criminology · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of social-therapeutic treatment for serious offenders in juvenile detention: A quasi-experimental study of recidivism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Objectives: This meta-review integrates the findings of meta-analyses and systematic reviews to explore the effect of intervention programs on recidivism for juvenile offenders. Methods: The systematic literature search gathered 48 meta-analyses and systematic reviews from 53 research reports, contributing 56 independent effect sizes for analysis. These effect sizes were statistically integrated, and five moderators of theoretical and methodological importance were tested using meta-regression. Results: On average, intervention programs are associated with a significant reduction in recidivism ( Conclusions: Results indicate that intervention programs can be an effective approach to reducing recidivism for juvenile offenders, especially when combined with a rehabilitative program modality. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11292-021-09472-z.
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